Alpha Kappa Omega (Local African American Fraternity, Merged into Omega Psi Phi)

In 1968, the same year Zeta Beta Tau became the first Greek organization to pledge an African American, a group of students organized local African American fraternity Alpha Kappa Omega. In 1971 AKO merged into Omega Psi Phi, the first national African American fraternity to be chartered at UT Knoxville.